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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.

Barry Commoner

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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Doctors Teacher Views
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Art Law Medicine
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Environment Lunch Nature
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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Agriculture People Sick
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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Gaps Needs Technology
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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Child Children Economic Labor
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology

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